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Agari Field CTO John Wilson will be giving a talk on "Preventing Unauthorized Email Spoofing with DMARC" at SCALE 14X on Sunday, Jan. 24 at 1:30. The SCALE Team caught up with John to ask him about his presentation.

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

Red Hat's Dan Walsh will be speaking on Sunday, Jan. 24 at 3 p.m. on “A Fresh Look at SELinux.” The SCALE Team caught up with him to ask him about his presentation.

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

A: My name is Dan Walsh, I have been working for Red Hat Base Engineer team for the last 15 years in Security engineering, mainly working on process isolation technologies like SELinux and containers (Namespaces). I am now the lead of the Container/Docker team at Red Hat.

Boy do we have a treat in store this year. SCALE's teaming with the local amateur radio (aka HAM) community to bring you a host of amateur radio based activities. We will have a HAM radio booth, which will show case neat equipment, and demos, including one using the ham digital or MESH network. The goal is to stream video from the show floor over a MESH network - that means not going over wifi or the wired lines on the show floor.

After a popular first show at SCALE13x, we are delighted to be back for another fun, informative, and raucous Bad Voltage Live show on the evening of Friday 22nd January 2016. The show will include plenty of surprises, prizes, and free beer! It is free to join.

SCALE's getting into amateur radio in a big way this year, starting with offering HAM exams. The tests will be conducted on Sunday, from 11 AM to 3 PM, at our PCC venue. Walk-in's welcome.

We also have a special treat for all the HAM's and wannabe HAM's in attendence. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) of Southern California will demonstrate their mesh network and how that facilitates emergency communication.

SCALE will also have it's own channel for the duration of the event, so if you have a licence and a radio, bring it over. Come be a part of the HAM community.

Some of you may have noticed that there are optional demographic questions on this year’s registration and CFP forms. I want to talk a little about why we’re doing this and what’s to come. But first let’s take a step back.

With the Snowden revelations, personal data security is more important than ever, and PGP is one tool to help. If you’ve been meaning to check it out, now’s the time! Newbies can check out the guides at http://www.phildev.net/pgp/ - then you can head to the SCALE PGP Keysigning Party to build out your web of trust!

With great fanfare, FOSS raconteur Bryan Lunduke will bring his annual "Linux Sucks" presentation -- complete with film crew and streaming for those who cannot make it here to Pasadena -- at SCALE 14X. Also, if you can't wait for the video in January, Lunduke also announces that his book, "Linux Sucks" (Spoiler alert: It doesn't), will be out soon. So you can read the book and then see the movie in January. It's a win-win.

SCALE 14x is coming up and will be our largest event yet. As we are an entirely volunteer-organized event, we could use your help! We are looking for volunteers who can assist our teams in the areas of registration, A/V, graphics design, room monitoring, speaker introductions and more.

If any of these sound interesting to you, and you would like to help make SCALE 14x our biggest and best year yet please get in touch.